Blurring face in video

[davy]

I need to blurr out part of the video, i.e. the face when it appears in shot. Can anyone advise if this is possible in Video Studio Pro X3 and how to do this?

[Black Lab]

That's covered (no pun intended) in a couple of threads in the Video Product Tutorials section of this forum. NewBlue also offers some plug-ins that do the job, though I don't think its any that comes with VS.

[Ron P.]

I know there's at least one tutorial in our Video Product Tutorials forum about this. Quick run down;

• Copy the clip you're wanting to blur the face, and place it in an overlay track. Set it to full screen. Mute the audio for this copy.
• Apply a filter, Mosaic for a pixelated look, Blur, or Average (seems to work best for blurring), to the clip on the overlay track.
• Apply the Crop filter to the same clip.
• Open the Customize dialog for the Crop filter, zoom-in the timeline for the Crop Filter keyframes. You will need to add a lot of key frames, depending on the movement of the object/face you want to blur.
• Size and align the Crop to the object/face. I will do a copy/paste to all when I have it positioned and sized, so I don't have to continually resize it.
• Move the playhead, watching to keep the crop area over the object/face. If it moves away, Insert a key-frame, and move it back.
• Repeat the above until you have it completed.
• Open the Mask/Chroma-Key dialog, apply a Chrome-key, color to match the Fill Color used in the Crop filter, default is black.
• Set the Similarity down to zero or a very low number.

Video Tutorial from YouTube;
http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php ... 29#p204929

[tinybeetle]

Nice reply Ron. Good info.